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Thursday, May 11, 2023

1843

This 1843 dagguerotype is what I believe to be 
the oldest male nude photo in my collection.

 

5 comments:

  1. Hung, considering it was before photoshop.
    (Probably how he got the gig.)

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    1. We'll never know if it was the main reason he got the job, but there had to have been some appreciation for his package.

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    2. I'm wondering how naughty this was at the time.Photography wouldn't have been around for very long. The temptation to do a nude would have been all too great so the photographer bit the apple and here it is.A true forerunner.

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    3. You raise a very interesting subject. For a model to pose nude for a painting or drawing was quite ordinary at that time, so certain men were accustomed to it. We look at photography in a different way than we do painting, but they might not have.

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